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Amazon DocumentDB Launches in Canada West Region with Scalable MongoDB-Compatible Service

AWS expanded Amazon DocumentDB availability to the Canada West (Calgary) region, delivering a fully managed document database service compatible with MongoDB workloads.

AI-ASSISTED REPORTING · RETROSPECTIVE ARCHIVE

Retrospective edition: 2026-04-29. Source published: 2026-04-29. Added to this archive: 2026-11-03. This briefing was prepared later from the linked announcement; it was not published on this website on the historical edition date.

Amazon DocumentDB, a fully managed JSON document database engineered for MongoDB compatibility, became available in the Canada West (Calgary) region. It supports seamless scaling up to 128TiB of storage without impacting application performance. The service is designed for mission-critical document workloads, offering durability and scalability across virtually any scale.

Integration with AWS services such as Database Migration Service, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Lambda, and AWS Backup streamlines management and observability. The service can scale read capacity with up to 15 low-latency read replicas, enabling high throughput without application downtime, making it suitable for large-scale, operational document databases.

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Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is Now Available in the Canada West (Calgary) Region ↗

Source published 2026-04-29. This report was prepared with AI assistance from the linked primary-source material. Claims and limitations should be checked against the original announcement or research.